Wilberforce University

6 十月 2025
申请人数
12661
录取人数
6676
入读人数
204
中文名/译名
ACT Composite 25th %
15
ACT Composite 50th %
18
ACT Composite 75th %
21
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with ranks of either captain, sergeant, or lieutenant. Additionally, an Army Training Corp was established on WU's campus in 1918 with the university taking on the responsibility of housing and feeding the 400 soldiers stationed at the camp. The WU community also were involved in supporting initiatives of the American Red Cross, and the selling of liberty bonds and war saving stamps.

===== President John Andrews Gregg =====
In spite of his success, Scarborough had an acrimonious relationship with Bishop Jones, the head of WU's executive board. His retirement in 1920 was largely due to internal politics with Bishop Jones attempting to have his son, Gilbert H. Jones, supplant Scarborough as president. That coup failed, and John Andrews Gregg, then president of Edward Waters College, was elected to succeed Scarborough.
Gregg paid off all of WU's debt in the Fall of 1920 when the school hosted the "Victory Rally of 1920". Student enrollment was at an all time high in the post-World War I era, and the university …

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